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Show EXPLORATION IN " BRITISH COLONY The Natives of the Interior of New Guinea Have Never Seen, a White Man. Melbourne, Australia, July 28 Dr. Enc Mjoberg, a Swedish scientist and airman, has requested permission of the Commonwealth authorities to use an aeroplane In exploring the intorlor of Papua or British New Guinea, some parts of which have never been seen by a white man, but the Australian authorities have refused to sanction his project Tor fear of troublo with tho natives. The English police are already hunting down some natives who recently killed one of their men with poisoned arrows, and although the natives are not feared for their fighting strength, the authorities are opposed to any unnecessary intrusion Into their territory. An explorer who recently headed an expedition from the Dahiti River had an unusual experience. "When I approached the natives," he said, ''they stood and gazed at me, and in less than two minutes many of them fainted and collapsed at my feet. At another place a chief came within a few yards of me and when I went to take hold of. his arm ho fainted and fell Into the bed of the creek The whole crowd then assembled around me and prostrated themselves." |